A lot of government thinkers aver that wealth can be created solely by financial legerdemain. By catering to money movers, and increasing "business incentives", they believe that an economy, like an animal that is sleeping, can be wakened and invigorated completely as if by some sort of magical medical injection. In some ways from the standpoint of being in government, it is a seductive form of thinking. But businesses that make stuff and sell stuff need money alright, and desperately, but more than that they need to make stuff and sell stuff well, and to have a definite market of people with needs and surplus cash. Everybody in such an economy needs to be busy and able to afford housing, travel - all the necessaries. And they must have a savings rate to in order to afford discretionary spending. This type of situation grows from a constant development over years of enterprise. It cannot be conjured out of congressional/parliamentary initiatives on paper in a few terms of office, whilst maintaining a break-neck profligacy with the capital of the people it purports to serve.
It is clear that people in government not living with a day to day business or whose livelihood does not depend on one, do not understand nor care to about what the plight of the wage earner and business person is in their country. They continue to raise taxes and government spending as though there were a bottomless well of money in the public domain. They blithely chase votes amongst the ever increasing poor and financially pressed, while chasing philosophies of social change and industrial progress as if they could do this by a stroke of a pen. Great nebulous clouds indicating some kind of satisfactory world puffed up by pages government's self serving figures obscure a view of reality of anyone who suspects that local conditions and individual discomfiture might give the lie to the assertions of an Ottawa or a Washington.
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